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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Is this experience worse than playing for the Texans?


NFL player ticketed while relative dies
Dallas police: Officer drew gun during traffic stop of NFL player outside hospital
By STEVE THOMPSON and TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Police Department confirmed Thursday that an officer drew a gun on NFL running back Ryan Moats and his wife after he stopped them to give them a ticket even as they begged to hurry to the bedside of their dying mother.

As he rushed his family to the hospital, Ryan Moats, 26, rolled through a red light. A Dallas police officer pulled their SUV over outside the emergency room at the Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano.

“He was pointing a gun at me as soon as I got out of the car,” said his wife, Tamishia Moats. “It was the weirdest feeling because I’ve never had a gun pointed at me before under those circumstances.”

Seconds later, Ryan Moats and his wife explained that her mother was dying inside the hospital.

“You really want to go through this right now?” Moats pleaded. “My mother-in-law is dying. Right now!”

I really like his wife's quote that she's never had a gun pointed at her in those circumstances. Under what circumstances has she had a gun pointed at her?

Overall I'm not that impressed. Mr. Moats you can call me when the cop shoots your dog. In Dallas the police may keep you from your mother-in-law's death bed but in the O-Town the sheriff's dept will kill your pet. So consider yourself lucky, aside from the part about having to play for the Texans. That's just downright unfortunate.

PS- There's a full video of the incident here.

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